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Movie Monday: Monkey Business (1952)
It’s time to take a moment to laugh and celebrate a comedy this Movie Monday! If there is anyone who can master classic film comedy it is definitely Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers! Monkey Business is a funny and adorable film from what could be expressed as the typical 50’s style comedy. In Monkey Business Grant brings back the coke bottle glasses he wore in Bringing Up Baby and his comedic skills. This isn’t the same style of comedy he used in some other movies, though, like Arsenic and Old Lace. Monkey Business shows us an older more mature side of Cary Grant until it doesn’t and everything just begins…
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Movie Monday: Rear Window (1954)
These photos are not mine. Possibly one of the most iconic Hitchcock films, Rear Window has a special place in cinema history. This was one of the first movies Hitchcock made in color. There are many fascinating aspects to this film, but one I found particularly interesting was in order to simulate daylight the set required numerous lights. With all of the necessary lamps on the set, at one point the heat they generated set off the sprinkler system! Rear Window was one of five Hitchcock films that was off limits for years because of production rights. Alfred Hitchcock bought back the rights to these “Five Lost Hitchcocks” and left…
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64 Years of Marriage
My Grandma and Grandpa McFarland after 64 years of marriage. You know the old saying “Grow old with me, the best is yet to be”? Well, I am lucky enough to have seen this saying in action. This year, June 20th to be precise, will mark the 64th wedding anniversary for my Grandma and Grandpa McFarland. It is hard to believe they have been married that long because to me it sounds like a lifetime. Yet, I couldn’t possibly imagine either of them being with anyone else. The happy newlyweds on their wedding back in 1954. Both of them are in their mid-eighties, and they have seen so much history. The…
